Readers' comments

Honestly, who cares how you spell Hedvig or Hedviga. This article is not about nationalism, but is about the fact that the justice system needs adjustment.

However, if Slovakia does not get its act together,then it risks becoming a semi-failed state (like the Ukraine), where political instability has cost the country development. A new coalition is in power, and I hope that it has the sense to throw off the shackles form the previous government, and lead the country to prosperity.

Finally, if all one did was read the economist, one would think that Slovakia is worse than Nazi Germany. It is as if there is no room in the Economist to praise Slovakia, and the fact that it has managed to grow its economy, and become an economic success story. According to the Economist, Slovaks are goose stepping, anti-Hungarian, anti-Semitic, ignorant oafs, who do not know how to run an economy, run a country, and be part of the world.

I assure you dear readers, that this is not the case. Please Economist, be a little more objective.

I would like politely point out that the correct form of the name of the (Hungarian) individual is Hedvig Malina, or Malina Hedvig if one was to use it in a Hungarian text.

I have come to expect better from The Economist. Slovakians only use the Slovakised version to assimilate an ethnic minority.(Or because they got used to it, which is not malicious, but has the same consequences.)

It is offsetting, that you prefer to be seen as polite, when you also quite clearly present yourself as a racist. It should really not matter in civil discussion, but numerous studies have shown that all peoples of Central Europe (and especially the Carpathian Basin) are quite alike genetically. Make of that what you will. Also, scientific consensus holds that all Indo-European peoples have originated in the Pontic-Caspian steppe and Central Asia. Note that this should not matter in terms of social capabilities, but I am not as reserved as I would like to be and had to point out the factual errors in your offhanded comment.

As for Hedvig Malina, why would marrying change the form of her given name? I hope that you are not implying that she was succesfully assimilated. It may very well be that the Slovak media uses a Slovakised name, but it is quite unlikely that she would refer to herself as Hedviga Malinová when talking in her mothertongue.

This sounds like another Economist’s gossip of a new evolving democracy. Is this newsworthy? Show me some other judicial body not lenient on political squabbles. Since when emulating a supreme court, from a (U.S.) mature democracy, became undesirable.

....The axis of the problem is that now a days judiciary is being allocated the power to wash the dirty linens of the Executive and Legislative not in the open but in the presence of those that have dirtied it in the first place....it is not only happening in Slovakia but has become a norm every where....but here we also forget that practically speaking it is the Executive and the Legislative that has the real powers too renew higher Judiciary position or for it appointment so how can we rely for ethical issues on Judiciary that itself has so much dirty linen of its own..